Enoch Graben Artificial Recharge Project
- 2006: CICWCD filed an aquifer recharge application with the State Engineer
- The application was approved in October 2015 allowing the District to recharge up to 20,000 acre feet per year from Coal Creek
- 2009: The Utah Geological Survey was contracted by Enoch City to “investigate a possible “fault” that was damaging streets, sidewalks, and curbs and gutters in a new subdivision north of Enoch. During a reconnaissance investigation, the UGS found a 2.4 mile-long earth fissure that had formed in response to land subsidence likely caused by groundwater overdraft of the local aquifer” (Investigation of Land Subsidence and Earth Fissures in Cedar Valley, Iron County, Utah, pg. 1)
- After the discovery of fissures in Enoch, UGS was contracted by CICWCD to establish an updated estimate of water supply and demand within the Cedar Valley Basin
- 2014: UGS published the study stating that there is a deficit of 9,100 acre feet from the Cedar Valley Aquifer each year
- October 2016: CICWCD filed an application for a groundwater recharge permit
- January 2017: The permit for groundwater recharge was approved
- The area of recharge is where springs used to flow
- The springs have dried up due to ground water pumping of the aquifer
- This project was made possible with the help of the Worth Grimshaw Family and Enoch City
